Thoughts from the interface of science, religion, law and culture

After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Beck: America Deserves to Be Destroyed for Electing Obama

Glenn Beck’s crazy train keeps barreling down the tracks at breakneck pace. On his show the day before the election, he said that if America is so “dead inside” that we reelect Obama, we deserve to be destroyed by God.

If you look at history through a biblical world view, the last step before a nation is completely destroyed is they drive the righteous from among them. If this isn’t a sign of a group of people that will drive the righteous from among them, and that’s the last step before God’s wrath comes, I fear for our country and it is – it cannot be overstated, it cannot be called paranoid … If you are a God‑fearing person, hear me. Last call, America. Last call. Because the righteous will be driven from among them.

They are nasty, divisive and, I’m sorry, but there is no way to describe that quote from Valerie Jarrett other than evil. Warning: Saul Alinsky is just the beginning of these people.

But I believe in the American people. I believe that we are not too far gone. I believe that people can watch and see the difference. They can feel the difference. When you watch Barack Obama, you can just see he is angry. When you watch Mitt Romney, you can see he is not. We are not an angry nation. We don’t listen to demagogues like that. It doesn’t work. No matter how much power he has amassed, no matter how many friends in the media he has, Americans know. And if they reject it this time, if they’re so dead inside – that’s a possibility – if they’re so dead inside that they can no longer see the difference between good and evil, we have to be destroyed because we will be a remarkable evil on this planet.

Glenn Beck just called someone else a demagogue. I have no ability to parody that.

If God is a cephalopod, he might have enough tentacles.
Also, useful for when America sinks into the sea.
The big question is, how many hands do N’yar-lath-hotep have?
And will the Deep Ones Lovecraft mentioned take over USA once it has sunk into the sea? Have they in fact been sponsoring Obama because they hope to provoke the inundation of USA? It is an original conspiracy theory, at least.

the last step before a nation is completely destroyed is they drive the righteous from among them.

You mean the scientists, educated, intelligent and normal people. Those are all the fundies To Hate list and they will persecute them any way they can.

Fundie xians and Mormons aren’t “righteous” whatever that means. They are just baggage being dragged along behind our society and holding it back.

PS Two of my long time friends just fled the USA two weeks ago. Dual citizen educated professionals and they had had enough after 30 years. It was partly the knuckle draggers but also partly our health care system. They were boomer age and starting to need a lot of health care for chronic conditions.

So, who was driven out of the country, exactly? If Glen Beck’s sort of “righteous” people were driven from the country, then… er… woot. I don’t believe for a minute that they have been, so no exclamation point there.

Soo….America functions the same as a tree: The dead tissue in the center provides structural strength to hold up the living, growing tissue. And America now has more dead, structurally strong (cellulose-based?) stuff inside. Is that what they call making a “stronger union”?
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“We have to be destroyed” because we are growing up into the power lines overhead and tangle with them? Or are we blocking a lakeside view?

I’m still waiting on the whole ‘water turning into blood’ and ‘three days of darkness’ thing. This whole ‘anger of god’ thing is just showing an amazing resemblance to natural weather patterns. Common, people, I was promised biblical wrath! Is a bit of salt really too much to ask of an omnipotent overlord?

“… it cannot be overstated, it cannot be called paranoid … If you are a God‑fearing person, hear me. Last call, America. Last call. Because the righteous will be driven from among them“.

My dear Glenn (or would prefer Mr Bek?) – When the so-called ‘righteous’ are driven out of America don’t even think of coming here; as a former PM said: ‘we decide who comes to this country, and the circumstances in which they come’. (If you do come, I hope you enjoy the overcrowded and under-resourced facilities at our latest ‘beach-side resort’, despite being full of suspicious-looking brown people, – Manus Island).
Dingo

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, are you sure you don’t mean the Mourdock in Indiana? Cause if so then you’re slurring my home state. Unless you’re referring to Josh Mandel, then my apologies. I know all us heartland states look the same and just blend into each other via I-70.

Thank you Raven @18 – posted that in response to this nonsense from a Facebook friend: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the highest realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground” Ephesians 6:12-13